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Spearheaded by STEAM teacher Dr. Sofie Hussain, Woodley Hills Elementary School worked this year to win a couple of grants to put together a community garden and outdoor classroom at the school. Highlights include 13 garden beds, a pollinator garden, an archeological dig site, an experimental garden, a weather station, and a bean tepee, to name but a few. The gardens are planted with crops that the students learn about in their Virginia history classes, and a soda bottle garden, put together with recycled soda bottles, will feature herbs that were used as medicines in colonial times.